Spring is warm and fragrant

Chapter 97 Stunning appearance
"Miss, Madam has written again."

Cai Sang walked in with high spirits, holding a letter from home, and the little maid behind her was holding a two-foot-square cage.

Lu Mingyu was sitting on the couch playing chess with Ganlu.After recuperating for more than a month, she can move freely now, but there is a thumb-sized scar on her left forehead.This is the place where Sunset Horse's dent was the heaviest. The imperial doctor said that if you are in your early twenties, no matter how good the scar cream is, it is impossible to eradicate it. However, Lu Mingyu is still thirteen and still growing, as long as she insists on applying the medicine every day , should be back to normal by the end of the year.

Now that the wound has just shed the scab, the color is dark, and the round spot is particularly obvious, even the broken hair on the forehead can't cover it, and Lu Mingyu doesn't want to leave it thick, so she wraps it in gauze every day, anyway, she stays at home, Don't worry about seeing people, and those who can come to visit her in the palace are relatives and friends, so don't mind.

"I'll write it later." A letter came from her mother, Lu Mingyu accepted the letter with a smile, and leaned on the pillow to read it.

Since she fell ill, her parents wrote a letter every three days. At the beginning, all her mother said was love for her, and the gentle exhortations seemed to come to her face. However, as Lu Mingyu recovered day by day, her mother finally showed her strict mother's true face , repeatedly warned her that she must recuperate in the house, and she was not allowed to run around.

Guessing that her mother was still nagging, Lu Mingyu put her mother's letter at the bottom, and looked at her father's and younger brothers' letters first.The father's tone was as gentle as ever. Brother Heng first asked his sister if she was in good health, and then said that he missed her and hoped that she would come home soon.Brother Nian can also write, and his handwriting is clumsy and cute. He said that he dreamed of his sister and begged his sister to ask his grandfather to send someone to pick him up in Liangshan.

Imagining the appearance of her two younger brothers acting like a baby standing in front of her, the smile on the corner of Lu Mingyu's mouth never broke, and she finally picked up the letter from her mother.Before, she was still asking about her health, and after chatting about it, Lu Mingyu thought her mother was long-winded, but she also watched with relish. Later, when she saw her mother said that she had made two clothes for her, Lu Mingyu's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked Ganlu to open the cage. Put on soft-soled embroidered shoes and rush to see new clothes.

"Girl, this is men's clothing!"

Ganlu was the first to unfold a set of jade-white round-neck robes, saying in surprise.

Cai Sang shook off the second set of sky blue embroidered cloud pattern, also shocked.

Lu Mingyu's eyes fell on a small long box next to the cage, and she bent down to pick it up. Inside were several foreheads of different colors. In the middle of the big red was a ruby ​​accessory, and the lavender one became Amethyst accessories, as well as pink tourmalines and sapphires, one after another, are arranged in a box, with pearls floating.

"It's so delicate." Ganlu and Caisang all gathered around, looking at these foreheads in amazement. Ganlu put down the robe in her hand, took out a forehead and gestured at Lu Mingyu's forehead, and found that it was just right. Block Lu Mingyu's scar.Ganlu couldn't help laughing, "Miss, Madam is so kind to you, we will return to Beijing in a few days, Madam must hope that Madam can go shopping outside again, knowing that you are bored in the house."

How could Lu Mingyu not understand her mother's painstaking efforts?

She picked up the letter that she hadn't read just now, and found a few small words on the last line, telling her to be careful.

Feeling warm in her heart, Lu Mingyu was not in a hurry to try on clothes, but ordered Ganlu to prepare paper and pens, and she had to write back to her mother first.

After writing the reply, Lu Mingyu happily tried on the clothes, thinking about waiting for her grandfather to come back, and asking if he had time to accompany her to ride a horse.Lu Mingyu still likes to ride horses, but after going through a wild ride, Lu Mingyu is a little scared. With her tall and mighty grandfather by her side, she will feel much more at ease.

Unexpectedly, near noon, Ming Huidi returned with his grandfather.

"Uncle Huang, you are here too, please sit down quickly." Lu Mingyu graciously invited Emperor Minghui to take a seat, and then brought tea with her own hands, looking expectantly and shyly at the stalwart man in a bright yellow dragon robe.She still remembered the fact that Emperor Ming Hui wanted to give her the horse Linglong. Lu Mingyu had seen that horse before. It was snow-white in color, as if it had run down from a snow-capped mountain, and it was full of immortality.

Emperor Minghui looked happy, and after drinking tea, he carefully looked at his niece's forehead, "Ah Nuan's forehead still hurts?"

"It didn't hurt a long time ago, it just left a scar." Lu Mingyu touched the gauze on her forehead uncomfortably.

Emperor Minghui comforted him: "Don't be afraid of scars. Ah Nuan's Qing Yushuang is used up. Ask uncle Huang anytime, so that there will be no scars on Ah Nuan's forehead." The beauty cream that comes out can soften the skin and bones, and also has the miraculous effect of removing scars. Because the snow lotus king is rare, only three boxes can be made each year and stored in the freezer.A few days ago, Emperor Ming Hui rewarded three boxes of Lu Mingyu in one go, which was an honor that no concubine in the harem had ever enjoyed.

"Uncle Huang is so kind to me, Ah Nuan wanted to hurt him on purpose, and trick Uncle Huang's Qing Yushuang into it bit by bit." Lu Mingyu walked behind Ming Hui Emperor and beat Ming Hui Emperor's shoulder flatteringly.

Emperor Ming Hui turned back and smiled, "A Nuan likes Qing Yushuang so much, then I will exchange three years of Qing Yushuang with you for a Linglong horse, will Ah Nuan be willing?"

Lu Mingyu paused with her small hands, and then hummed, "Of course I would, anyway, the Linglong horse is still with Uncle Huang, and it's not mine..."

The little girl pouted and spoke sourly that she could quarrel over a plate of food. Emperor Ming Hui was slightly startled, and then laughed.

He came to the throne at a young age, and after he took the throne, he was busy quelling all kinds of internal and external strife and intrigues with powerful officials, and finally he was able to relax a bit, and passed the age of romance.Regarding the concubines in the harem, Emperor Ming Hui used to get up early at night to go to court, and rarely talked with those women. Instead, he could chat with his only cousin Xiao Shi.After Xiao's marriage, Emperor Minghui had neither a sister nor a daughter. It was not until the birth of his niece and niece that Emperor Minghui felt the joy of being with the little girl again.

In his heart, Emperor Ming Hui couldn't get close to everyone around him, except for his confidants who had been following him all the time, he felt that everyone wanted something from him, so the gentleness and coquettishness or careful care of those concubines had no meaning in his eyes , Only with women who are blood relatives can Emperor Minghui let his guard down a little bit.

After the cousin got married, Emperor Minghui no longer had the convenience to reminisce about the old days with the cousin. It happened that nieces and nieces were born one after another, and the two or three-year-old girl dolls would not be scheming. Emperor Minghui spoiled the two children while watching them grow up slowly. Damn, this intimacy is something even a few princes can't feel.Emperor Minghui wanted to choose the crown prince from among the princes, he was the father and even the emperor, there were only Xiao Xuan and Lu Mingyu, Emperor Minghui only needed to be pampered, not tested by heavy expectations.

Therefore, the more Lu Mingyu let go in front of him, the happier Emperor Ming Hui would be.

"It turns out that Ah Nuan misses my exquisite horse so much." Fearing that his niece would think him stingy, Emperor Minghui quickly explained: "Ah Nuan was recuperating earlier, so the emperor didn't rush to send the horse here. How about this? I will take Ah Nuan there this afternoon. Look at the horse, let's run two laps together, with me here, feel free to ride the horse, Ah Nuan."

Lu Mingyu was overjoyed, and gave a "hmm" happily.

At noon, Emperor Ming Hui returned to his bedroom for dinner, Lu Mingyu finished his rest, changed into the men's clothes newly sent by his mother, and went to see his grandfather with his head held high.Lu Zhan was sitting in the main room, because his granddaughter was going to ride a horse again in the afternoon, and Lu Zhan couldn't help but think of his granddaughter falling off the horse again, so he called his eldest grandson Lu Jiaping to him, and warned him again.

Footsteps came from outside, Lu Zhan casually looked over, expecting to be a flowery little granddaughter, unexpectedly turned around a young man with red lips and white teeth, looking forward to shine. There is a folding fan inside, which is completely worthy of the four characters "Yushu Linfeng".

"Grandfather, do I look more stylish than my elder brother in this way?" Lu Mingyu stood next to her elder brother and teased affectionately.The cousin blamed herself for her fall. Lu Mingyu knew that it was not the cousin's fault. When she learned that the cousin was implicated by her and knelt down for a long time, Lu Mingyu felt so guilty that she had already brought a gift to make amends. The brother-sister relationship was not affected in any way. .

"Ah Nuan...you look good no matter how you dress up." Lu Jiaping looked at his cousin in amazement, loving and proud at the same time.

Lu Zhan looked at his granddaughter who was more eye-catching than wearing women's clothing, but frowned.The granddaughter is so beautiful, what should I do if she is targeted by the pack of wolves outside?From Lu Zhan's point of view, those people who could see their granddaughter were taking advantage of her granddaughter, and deliberately told her granddaughter to change her clothes. Looking at her granddaughter's big eyes full of anticipation and complacency, Lu Zhan changed his mind and dismissed the idea.

The most important thing is for the granddaughter to be happy. With him by his side, those wolves will be in vain.

"Let's go, don't let the emperor wait for us." The grandparents gathered together, Lu Zhan stood up, his figure was as tall as a mountain.

Outside the palace of Emperor Hui of Ming Dynasty.

Chu Xing was wearing the official uniform of the commander of the Shenshu Camp, standing shoulder to shoulder with Chu Sui behind the third prince, and was going to accompany Ming Hui Emperor on a trip in the afternoon.

Behind him, the horse Yechen suddenly stepped on the spot. When Chu Xing turned his head, he saw Yechen's head tilted towards the wide road on the east side, but there were no abnormalities on the road except for the guards standing everywhere.Because Ye Chen calmed down after moving, Chu Xing didn't think much about it, his phoenix eyes looked ahead, his expression was as stern as usual.

"Brother, the Lu family hasn't given you any news yet?" Chu Sui turned his head towards him and asked in a low voice.

That day when Chu Xing came back from the Lu family’s other courtyard, he went directly to Chu Sui to explain, saying that he had already fallen in love with Lu Mingyu, because he knew that Chu Sui also liked Lu Mingyu, and as an elder brother, he should be humble, so he didn’t show any signs .Now that Lu Mingyu would rather die than forgive him, Chu Xing gave in once and didn't want to give in again, please let Chu Sui let go and stop pestering Lu Mingyu.

Chu Sui was not reconciled.

But what the elder brother said was the truth, in those few days in Chu Suimeng, Lu Mingyu looked at him before he fell off the horse, resolute, without any nostalgia.Chu Sui was resentful, hated Lu Mingyu for being unfeeling so far, and refused to forgive him for an impulse when he was young, and he didn't want to give up, he didn't want to give up the girl he liked for the first time.After tossing and turning for several nights, Chu Suicai gradually calmed down.

Lu Mingyu would rather die than forgive him, and doesn't want to marry him, that is to say, no matter how hard he tries, he won't be able to get her.

His elder brother has always taken good care of him. He obviously likes Lu Mingyu, but he advises him and gives in several times. Then, as a cousin, since he knows that he has no destiny with Lu Mingyu, why can't he help his elder brother?If Lu Mingyu liked him, it was right for him to keep fighting, but he would be a fool if he knew it was not desirable to fight with his elder brother, and would only chill his elder brother's heart, and would only make people see the Chu family as a joke.

Chu Sui still likes Lu Mingyu, but he doesn't want to get into trouble with his brother because of a woman who doesn't like him.

After thinking about it, Chu Sui went to drink with his brother, got drunk, and continued to be a brother the next day.

So whether it was because the cousin cared about his elder brother, or because he was curious about the result of the "rival's" marriage proposal, Chu Sui wanted to know the progress.

The cousin was standing on his left. As soon as he opened his mouth, Chu Xing's right eyelash moved imperceptibly.

"After returning to Beijing, I will ask my grandmother to formally propose marriage."

After a moment of silence, Chu Xing said expressionlessly.

Chu Sui's eyes dimmed, and his mood was complicated.Official marriage proposal, so the Lu family agreed?
He gave up, but after hearing the news, Chu Sui really couldn't be happy for his brother.

There was the sound of horseshoes in front, Chu Sui looked over absently, and saw the guards leading two horses walking towards this side one after the other. The fat and healthy horse in front was stronger than his elder brother Ye Chen , with dark golden fur shining brightly in the sun, like a golden horse made of pure gold.The horse in the back was snow-white, and was twice smaller than the golden horse, but the white horse was full of immortality, like the bright moon in the mid-autumn night sky.

They are the two divine horses of Emperor Minghui: Tianfeng and Linglong.

Chu Sui stared blankly at the two horses that were getting closer, and suddenly remembered something. He looked at his elder brother in surprise. The news that the emperor rewarded Lu Mingyu with Linglong had already spread. Could it be that Lu Mingyu is also coming today?
Chu Xing's gaze had long been taken away from Linglong's horse, and his black eyes were silently looking at the majestic sculpture in front of Emperor Ming Hui's palace, as if he didn't know the meaning of Linglong's appearance.The elder brother was as puzzled as a stone, and Chu Sui was unwilling that a girl as charming as Lu Mingyu would end up in his elder brother's hands, but he couldn't help but remind him, "Brother, she will probably come."

Chu Xing looked down at him, "Who?"

Chu Sui almost vomited blood with chest tightness, clenched his fists aggrievedly, and looked to the other side bitterly.The father and son of the Lu family agreed to their elder brother, because they must have taken a fancy to his ability and future. According to the matchmaker's orders from his parents, Lu Mingyu must have agreed because he obeyed his father's orders. Anyway, he didn't believe that Lu Mingyu would like his elder brother!If he hadn't been foolish, brother wouldn't have had the slightest chance!

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, Chu Sui felt angry, but he was the one who was most angry, who made him make a mistake!

"Lord Lu is here."

There were whispers in the distance, and Chu Sui immediately looked towards the way.

Sure enough, Lu Zhan came, followed by a grandson on both sides...

Before thinking about it, Chu Sui fixed his eyes on the "young man" on the right side of Lu Zhan. She was wearing a jade-white round-neck robe with a cluster of green-petaled orchids embroidered on the hem. The waist that was not full of grip fell, and it swayed slightly with her steps, silent but sounding.

Chu Suiqing couldn't help but look up at the jade-white robe and the jade-like figure.She is wearing a man's bun today, and her hair is fixed with a white jade hairpin, revealing a jade-like and handsome face.A forehead inlaid with rubies surrounds her forehead, the red color makes her skin more beautiful than snow, her eyebrows are picturesque, and she is more suave and romantic than all the men Chu Sui has ever seen.

All the men present were looking at her, but she was calm, as if they were nothing, just smiling and talking to her grandfather.

Chu Sui was infatuated, Lu Mingyu, Lu Mingyu, and only she was worthy of the word "Mingyu".

"Grandfather, I want to go and see how Uncle Huang is preparing." When he came outside the palace gate, Lu Mingyu glanced at Linglong who was being led by the guards, her eyes were full of joy.

"Go, don't run around." Lu Zhan looked at his granddaughter's forehead wiped to cover the scar, and couldn't bear to refuse any request from her granddaughter.

Lu Mingyu nodded obediently, and stepped into the palace gate that even the Third Prince didn't have the courage to take the initiative to enter with a smile.

Since Lu Mingyu appeared in everyone's field of vision until her figure disappeared, she didn't look at anyone present with her vivid and beautiful eyes.

After the person left, Chu Sui felt lost, his mind was taken away from Lu Mingyu, and he secretly observed his elder brother again.

At this time, Chu Xing stepped out from the side of the third prince, strode up to Lu Zhan, and saluted respectfully, "You are here."

After his granddaughter had an accident, every time he ran into Chu Xing, he would come over to please him. Lu Zhan would stab Chu Xing at first, but now he doesn’t even bother to stab, so he nods and perfunctory, sweeps his tiger eyes, and finds a few Shang Shu spoke, but Lu Zhan was notoriously cold-faced, and his behavior was no different from treating others.

After seeing the ceremony, Chu Xing returned to behind the third prince and continued to remain expressionless.

Chu Sui recalled the situation when his elder brother and Lu Zhan saluted, suddenly lost interest, and said in a low voice: "Brother, I caught a cold last night and I didn't feel well, so I went back first." Lu Mingyu is beautiful, so beautiful that he can't forget it in his heart, but She already belonged to her elder brother, no matter how beautiful she was, it was for his elder brother to see, Chu Sui didn't want to torture himself.

"Have a good rest." Chu Xing patted him on the shoulder lightly.

Chu Sui quickly avoided, motioned for Chang Sui to lead the horse, and withdrew from the trip.

Hearing the sound of his cousin's footsteps going away, Chu Xing's stern face finally showed a slight change. He pursed his lips tightly and turned his phoenix eyes to the palace gate.

After waiting for a while, a familiar voice came from inside, "Uncle Huang ordered people to prepare bows and arrows, is it because he wants to hunt?"

While talking, two figures, one tall and one short, finally appeared.

Almost as soon as Lu Mingyu came out, Chu Xing cast his gaze over her, his phoenix eyes fixed on her.I haven't seen her for more than a month. He is worried about how her injury is recovering. He has visited the door many times but can't see him. He is afraid that his cousin will resurface and try to pretend that the marriage proposal went well. In the dead of night, all she thinks about is her, she smiles Calling him cousin uncle, she fell into his arms dying, crying that she liked him.

Chu Xing does not believe that she really forgot him in just one month, she must be blaming him, Chu Xing dare not expect more, now he just wants to explain clearly to her alone, at least let her know that he is not as good as she thought in her eyes. as ruthless.

The man's eyes were scorching, like two rockets shooting at her face, how could Lu Mingyu not feel it?
But she couldn't forget the scene she saw on horseback, and she couldn't forget that Chu Xing gave her to his good cousin.

She has been smiling for more than a month, laughing for everyone who cares about her, but Lu Mingyu always dreams at night. The dreams are full of brothers from the Chu family. In the dream, Chu Xing gave her to Chu Sui in various ways. Meng, Chu Sui was going to touch her, she cried and begged Chu Xing to save her, but Chu Xing still left heartlessly.

Maybe give her a little more time, and she will be able to look back at him calmly.

But now, Lu Mingyu can't do it.

"Uncle Huang, then I'm going to get on the horse first." Seeing the exquisite snow-white horse that will soon belong to her, Lu Mingyu's heart became brighter as if she had found a treasure, and she greeted Emperor Ming Hui, and she walked briskly towards Linglong The horse ran away, dressed in a jade white robe, flying away in front of Chu Xing like the catkins blown by the wind.

Didn't even look at him.

Chu Xing followed her figure with his eyes, watched her hug Linglong's head affectionately, watched her get on the horse skillfully, and then walked to his grandfather Lu Zhan, waiting to set off.

"Master?" Wei Teng reminded in a low voice.

Chu Xing nodded, took the reins, and turned up.

At dusk, Emperor Ming Hui sent someone to count the prey of the crowd, and was shocked to find that Chu Xing shot alone, accounting for half of all the prey.

"Shijin is good at archery!" Ming Huidi praised loudly.

Chu Xing looked at the young man in white beside Emperor Minghui.

Lu Mingyu lowered her head and caressed the exquisite horse's back. The setting sun was shining on her body.

(End of this chapter)